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LELAND—Brunswick Community College’s Leland campus is undergoing a $500,000 renovation to become the center of industrial training for a number of industrial parks going up along U.S. 74-76. It will also be a presentation center for the county’s economic development commission (EDC).

Velva Jenkins, BCC’s assistant vice president for economic and workforce development, explained the college’s goal for the makeover is to put more focus on training the workforce.

A passenger on the Tied High, the parasailing boat on which two women were killed during a storm in August, has filed suit against the parasailing company on behalf of his four minor children. He claims they have suffered emotional distress since the incident.

Robert Alan Whitman of New Jersey filed suit in U.S. District Court on behalf of his four children, all of whom are younger than 14.

The Brunswick County Board of Education has yet to make a decision on how much to charge individuals seeking public records.

“We’ve not charged for anything whatsoever so far, and this didn’t really come about until there was a request for six months of information,” Superintendent Katie McGee said during last month’s policy committee meeting. “Once that occurred, it took a tremendous amount of time on staff.”

SOUTHPORT—The hot summer sun wasn’t having much of an effect on 143 people gathered on the Fort Johnston Garrison Lawn on Friday, July 3.

They were smiling, laughing, watching children play and listening to music. And mostly, they were waiting patiently, along with their proud family members, for an hour-long ceremony that would change their lives yet also allow them to continue living the way they have been for years.

Nelson Alexander Caraballo, who was arrested last Wednesday for second-degree burglary, has also been charged with the assault of a 69-year-old Supply man during an attempted carjacking late last month. The assault happened in a Food Lion parking lot near Holden Beach.

Brunswick County Sheriff’s detective Tony Caison said Caraballo has been charged with first-degree kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle stemming from the Nov. 21 attempted carjacking.